Rookie Mag Gives Me High School Nostalgia

I think about what it would have been like if I had grown up reading and writing blogs in high school and the type of person it would have made me. And to think – I was just a few years off. Every now and again, I come across some bad-ass video of Tavi Gevinson singing, strumming her guitar or schooling professionals that’ve been in the biz for decades, in her honest lectures. There’s no doubt about it, she’s a brilliant creative. Her brainchild, Rookie Mag makes me wish that I had quality blogs to turn to instead of the pirating of Napster during my high school years. Sometimes when there wasn’t enough room at the cafeteria table, you just wished that you had something you could connect with.

Rookie does that for millions of teenage girls. It has become a safe and real place that gives girls the permission to let their hair down and let your weird out, because it’s better to be you, than pretend to love something you aren’t. I remember my angsty days of wearing band tees and thinking I was so hardcore. Actually I remember them so well that I made a playlist on Spotify about it, with all my favorite songs and bands from Freshman year, you know, the awkward days.

I remember those days so vividly, playing Dookie in its entirety three times over. Head nodding to New Found Glory before MTV2 was playing their videos and thinking that Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional was a total dream boat because he used big words. Now, those were the days.

Resources:
My Teenage Angst Playlist on Spotify
Rookie Mag
Ask a Grown Man: Jon Hamm
How To a Two Minute Beehive